yeah but what about people who have had loved ones die in car crashes due to shitty airbags?!
"he's just sexist", they say, later on laughing at a joke in the special about stephen hawking and ALS because it doesn't affect them.
yeah but what about people who have had loved ones die in car crashes due to shitty airbags?!
comedy, has it gone too far?
3 huge sections that were certainly "layered":
-him being sexually assaulted
-the argument he had with his wife about elvis (the best bit in the special, the joke was a fucking ouroboros)
-the bit about his dog that tied into repressing his feelings from earlier in the special
nobody in comedy is more aware of his own shortcomings. you should listen to his podcast. makes fun of himself for 90 minutes a week.
Yeah the military bit really killed when I saw himI saw this set on tour almost a year ago now, and have been looking forward to this. Loved it.
However, I will note that he cut a great bit about the armed forces that absolutely killed the audience. I wonder if that was because it was in England or if he wants to workshop it more.
Anyway, the bit was about how we're supposed to see everyone in the military as heroes even when they're not. He talked about fighter jet pilots versus the guys with the orange glow sticks that point them in the direction they're supposed to take off as well as guys who do menial tasks like scrape barnacles off of ships. I had a friend with me, a vet, at the time who actually did that particular job and he was dying the whole time. Especially when he was talking about how they get introduced at baseball games, "One of our heroes is here," Titantron goes to shot of guy that scraped barnacles off ships.
Bill did mention when he did it that the bit offended a lot of normal people, but military people loved it. So, maybe it just didn't work out. IDK.
Great regardless.
Also, at the beginning he talked about how his wife just called him as he was about to come out, and she was crying/freaking out. It made him instantly nervous and worried, and it turns out she just saw "A Star is Born" and thought it was really good. lol.
I loved his 15 minute takedown of Philadelphia when a heckler got to him.Yeah the military bit really killed when I saw him
Some heckler was yelling something incomprehensible about ISIS and Bill made fun of him constantly for the rest of the show.
I agree. I was wrong in stating it wasn't layered. Him being sexually assaulted, tying backs to him being an altar boy, tying him back to his childhood. Elvis bit was fun. His dog bit felt super sad.
I think in terms of comedy, this special was like not so good, because it felt like his journey through this current environment. Which was the same for Dave chapelle. Both went after the whole over correction of our political climates. And then both went personal.
Him calling it a "fucking one-bridge-having, piece of shit city" slayed me.I loved his 15 minute takedown of Philadelphia when a heckler got to him.
"Are we doing this, or what?" Dark as fuck, also funny as fuckThat altar boy line was fucking dark. I'll admit I laughed, and hopefully it's just a joke, but man, that was something.
It always kills me when people heckle. I gotta wonder if they do it to be made fun of. It does, however, make the show even more entertaining with them always getting destroyed afterwards.Yeah the military bit really killed when I saw him
Some heckler was yelling something incomprehensible about ISIS and Bill made fun of him constantly for the rest of the show.
He had to give her away due to behavioral issues. They were concerned about how the dog would be with their child before it was born. They gave it to the trainer she had been seeing.Shit what happened to Cleo? I haven't heard his podcast in a while...
It was more than a heckler, it was a lot of the audience. The first comedian of the night was booed off stage, who this was the other comedians won't say. After that, others were cutting their acts short due to how the audience was behaving. By the time Bill got out there, he just snapped. He refused to get off the stage early, which is why you hear him counting down how many minutes are left during the rant.Him calling it a "fucking one-bridge-having, piece of shit city" slayed me.
I actually think the hecklers went after the comedian before him and he was either showing solidarity or just letting the rowdy crowd know that he didn't come to play
He fucking nails it when he talks about how white women love to section themselves off from their own privilege and pass it all off to white men. You're all in this together!
Thing about the feminism stuff is, he had a point.
'Someday there's gonna be the first woman President'
Crowd Cheers
'You dont even know what her fucking platform is, and you automatically cheer.'
That is hilarious.
Him calling it a "fucking one-bridge-having, piece of shit city" slayed me.
I actually think the hecklers went after the comedian before him and he was either showing solidarity or just letting the rowdy crowd know that he didn't come to play
"Are we doing this, or what?" Dark as fuck, also funny as fuck
Chappelle nailed it during one of his specials...
Come on, white woman, you know what it is. You was in on the heist, you just don't like your cut.
That for some it doesnt even matter what her agenda is as long as she is female.
That for some it doesnt even matter what her agenda is as long as she is female.
I thought the same. Some of the second half got a pretty good laugh outta me though.I'm about 14 minutes in and it isn't offensive, just tired and boring jokes about how metoo went too far.
I love Burr but this isn't creative and disappointing.
I saw this set on tour almost a year ago now, and have been looking forward to this. Loved it.
However, I will note that he cut a great bit about the armed forces that absolutely killed the audience. I wonder if that was because it was in England or if he wants to workshop it more.
He talked about why he cut it in the latest podcast with Rogan, apparantly on the day of the taping, some news came out which made the subject a bit touchy or something.I saw this set on tour almost a year ago now, and have been looking forward to this. Loved it.
However, I will note that he cut a great bit about the armed forces that absolutely killed the audience. I wonder if that was because it was in England or if he wants to workshop it more.
Anyway, the bit was about how we're supposed to see everyone in the military as heroes even when they're not. He talked about fighter jet pilots versus the guys with the orange glow sticks that point them in the direction they're supposed to take off as well as guys who do menial tasks like scrape barnacles off of ships. I had a friend with me, a vet, at the time who actually did that particular job and he was dying the whole time. Especially when he was talking about how they get introduced at baseball games, "One of our heroes is here," Titantron goes to shot of guy that scraped barnacles off ships.
Bill did mention when he did it that the bit offended a lot of normal people, but military people loved it. So, maybe it just didn't work out. IDK.
Great regardless.
Also, at the beginning he talked about how his wife just called him as he was about to come out, and she was crying/freaking out. It made him instantly nervous and worried, and it turns out she just saw "A Star is Born" and thought it was really good. lol.
This is good to hear, started to watch this last night and that first bit was so predictable and boring I switched to something else. There is a lot of content out there vying for my time, you have to start with something more interesting than that opener. Will go back later tonight.I felt like it got better as it went on, my GF noped out in the first few minutes.
oh my god what a photograph. it's actually perfect.
it's not about those 3 women.its ok to shame those 3 women just standing there? just for their race? they probably didnt even vote for Trump, not one of them, i'd fucking bet on it.
generalizing based simply on race is always dangerous bullshit, always.
i mean what are those 3 women supposed to do in that situation, go up to the woman holding the sign and beg for forgiveness for something they most likely did not even fucking do?
Yup, that killed when I saw him in LA. I think there was somebody unhappy with it in the crowd if I recall, lmao.I saw this set on tour almost a year ago now, and have been looking forward to this. Loved it.
However, I will note that he cut a great bit about the armed forces that absolutely killed the audience. I wonder if that was because it was in England or if he wants to workshop it more.
The picture definitely gained traction based on those 3 women in the background, but it is not about them.
Judging by some of the reactions in this thread, I was expecting the first 15 minutes to be seriously rough, but it was pretty tame from my perspective. It was basically just a rehash of his usual curmudgeon persona rather than punching straight down like the "edgier" parts of Chappelle's recent special.
I thought this special was better than his last one, although I probably have to rewatch it to really compare since it's been a couple of years.
yeah you can tell his childhood home life was probably shit. also that dog story was horrible
I saw this set on tour almost a year ago now, and have been looking forward to this. Loved it.
However, I will note that he cut a great bit about the armed forces that absolutely killed the audience. I wonder if that was because it was in England or if he wants to workshop it more.
Anyway, the bit was about how we're supposed to see everyone in the military as heroes even when they're not. He talked about fighter jet pilots versus the guys with the orange glow sticks that point them in the direction they're supposed to take off as well as guys who do menial tasks like scrape barnacles off of ships. I had a friend with me, a vet, at the time who actually did that particular job and he was dying the whole time. Especially when he was talking about how they get introduced at baseball games, "One of our heroes is here," Titantron goes to shot of guy that scraped barnacles off ships.
Bill did mention when he did it that the bit offended a lot of normal people, but military people loved it. So, maybe it just didn't work out. IDK.
Great regardless.
Also, at the beginning he talked about how his wife just called him as he was about to come out, and she was crying/freaking out. It made him instantly nervous and worried, and it turns out she just saw "A Star is Born" and thought it was really good. lol.
It sounded like it got the biggest laugh from the audience.The airbag joke he threw in the middle of the blowup doll bit killed me.